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Are You Gonna Be My Girl · Jet

EXERCISE 9 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 39 and 1 more
110 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAHNS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You Gonna Be My Girl on drums

182 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, silence through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-41, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 16 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    20                       21
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--------x--|---x--------x-----------|
Are You Gonna Be My Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 41, 53, 61 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, N -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-36 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-158 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Are You Gonna Be My Girl hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 41, 53, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED